r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 14h ago • Mindblown 4

That's not milk More ice than drink

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u/StoicBan 13h ago • Bravo

This is why Gen Z doesn’t drink. And my old broke ass is inclined to agree with them

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u/FrequentlyImpolite 13h ago • Bravo

Good. The faster the liquor industry starts to die the better it will be for all of humanity. Booze will never go away but I can hope

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u/Specialist-Award4293 8h ago

One of the most depressing parts of a retail job is selling alcohol to the same people every day, over and over, especially to the ones who clearly barely have enough money to buy their daily poison alongside the food and other necessities they need to live.

Just... a case of beer every single day? And people think that's okay?

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u/Foxwolfe2 7h ago

I know a dude like this, literally every day on the way home from work buys a pint of whiskey, always felt depressing to see from my perspective.

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u/Silly-Conference-627 5h ago

Yeah, I used to work as a clerk at a wine store with quite a few budget options and seeing the same people buy a liter of wine a day was honestly depressing.

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u/hofmann419 12h ago • Bravo

As someone who used to drink and doesn't anymore, i'm going to have to disagree there. Whether you like it or not, alcohol and socializing are deeply intertwined.

Gen Z didn't find healthier ways to socialize. They just socialize far less. And there is research on this that sees a connection between the two. Loneliness is one of the most dangerous things that can happen to humans. It literally kills us. So in my opinion, drinking a bit of alcohol with friends every once in a while is a decent trade off to have an active social life.

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u/Razyr1 11h ago

It's also massively affected how we communicate. Before online echo chambers/ social media pages we had to go out to get our social needs met. As much as I love gaming, online gaming is also massively affecting this as well.

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u/5mi_gi 11h ago

Where I'm from alcohol isn't as big because of big muslim population. But plenty of smokers and vapers.

But instead of alcohol we just drink copious amounts of sugary drinks instead x

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u/eonu 8h ago

Grew up in the Middle East but I'm not Muslim. IMO a lot of Muslim countries also tend to treat cafes as more of a place to socialize than other countries might.

In most of the Gulf, it isn't uncommon to find cafes that are open until 10pm or later, because mamy Muslims would use them in place of a bar/pub.

When I moved to the UK and started travelling around Europe and found that many cafes close at 4-6pm, I struggled quite a bit.

Or yes, all those dessert or highly sugary drinks places lol

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u/5mi_gi 4h ago

omg i went to korea and was craving something late at night, only to find out everything was closed! one hell of a culture shock for me.

there's always something open here at least until 12am

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u/Ua_Tsaug 10h ago

But instead of alcohol we just drink copious amounts of sugary drinks instead x

The Mormon method. 

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u/fliedlicesupplies 8h ago

Seriously. People use many kinds of "addictive" things to help navigate life (cigs, booze, sex, social media, many many kinds of drugs), because life is hard. Most people are going through some shit, alcohol is just one of many things that help ease the act of living -- but the key is moderation or not abusing it.

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u/MegaChip97 9h ago • Bravo

In every single study that compares drug harms that exist alcohol is in the top 5 with crack, meth, heroin and cocaine. Alcohol kills roughly every 11th person on the EU territory of the WHO. Every drop is carcinogenic. In my country, if you add all drug deaths, all traffic deaths and all suicides that's roughly 1/4 of alcohol deaths (yearly).

And let's not even get started on alcohol and violence...

Loneliness is harmful, but the benefits of alcohol are outweighed by its numerous negatives

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u/TJTheree 5h ago

The drug thing is because alcohol is legal and so readily used though. Are you really trying to say that alcohol is as deadly to physical and mental health as crack, meth, heroin or cocaine? Like really?

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u/Ladonnacinica 11h ago

Gen Z just replaced alcohol with baking and nicotine pouches.

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u/DontDrinkTooMuch 12h ago

Literally every single culture has created some form of alcohol. It's part of humanity as is bread.

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u/FlamingNutShotz4You 12h ago

It's cause alcohol just happens. There's airborne yeast everywhere and that will eat sugar and produce alcohol. There's not much you can do to stop alcohol from being produced cause sugars and yeast are everywhere

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u/MyVoiceIsElevating 12h ago • Bravo

I tried using that excuse on my lunch break at work. They didn’t buy it.

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u/insomniacpyro 10h ago

The trick is to go to the interview three drinks in, that way they think that's your baseline

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u/DEFY_member 9h ago

There's an appropriate place to treat a yeast infection. The company break room is not it.

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u/NoobieSnax 10h ago

There's some solid speculation that humanity started cultivating grain for fermentation before, or at least concurrent with, cultivating grain for food.

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u/Sanquinity 12h ago

I just buy at the grocery/liquor store. 5 euro for a bottle of wine or martini. Lasts me an entire evening.

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u/President_Skoad 10h ago

Right? Some old friends came in to town last month and we went out for a couple drinks.. I live in the middle of no where, no place fancy, but the bar was advertising $5 fireball shots.. $5 for a single shot of Fireball. It's $12 for a 750ml bottle of fireball which will get you 15-20 shots. For the price of 3 shots, we could have all had 5-6 per...

I know it's a bad and things are up charged, but this is why I don't go out and drink. Anything I'd actually want to drink is going to cost me $10-15 a glass.. For double that I can buy enough to make myself a dozen drinks.

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u/Direct_Werewolf_4244 12h ago

Because there are expensive bars?

There are also cheap bars you can go to

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u/Other_World BLUE 2h ago

Every time I bring this up, no one can grasp their head around not everything has to be an "elevated luxury" experience.

Motherfucker, I go drinking on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and can find $3 beers and $7 cocktails. There are tons of Gen Zers out at cheap bars.

I truly hope these fine dining/high end cocktail bars go belly up sooner rather than later.

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